Timeline

Papua New Guinea 2008

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After a week in Brisbane, we flew to Papua New Guinea. SUMMARY – 14 to 24 May 2008 1 night   Gateway Hotel, Port Moresby 3 nights   Ambua Lodge, Southern Highlands 3 nights   MV Sepik Spirit Cruise 2 nights   Rondon Ridge, Mt Hagen 1 night   Gateway Hotel, Port Moresby ITINERARY IN BRIEF Wed 14 May: Upon … Read more

Villa St. Joseph, Mane France

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    525504300RUE HAUTEMANE922181.36319250.45.7676448591440543.9372098597957 We found Villa St. Joseph in the summer of 2007 and closed on the purchase in early 2008. STATUTS SCI THE FINNEGAN RESIDENCE  

Ballooning the Alps 2008

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In January of 2008 Judith and I attended the Château-d’Œx International Hot Air Balloon Festival in Switzerland with the American ballooning team led by Stan Hess. Hot Air Ballooning in the Alps 2008

Europe 2007

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The trip had three parts.  First we started in Paris, then Milan, and finally we rented a house in Tuscany with Sandy and Keith and Ed and Nadine. In the second part we moved west from southern Croatia to eastern Provence. In the third part we went house hunting, seeing over 20 houses in about … Read more

China 2007

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After retiring, we spent a month in Hong Kong and then traveled around China. We went to Guilin, Yangshuo, Yuzi Paradise art park, Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Chengdu and Chongqing, then took a river cruise toward Shanghai. 2007 Hong Kong from mid-February to mid-March. Apartment on the 26th floor of a tower above Pacific Place.  Food … Read more

Hong Kong 2007

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After retirement Judith and I rented a place in Hong Kong for a month at Pacific Place. Before that, I spent a week at a Buddhist monastery in Thailand, where I damaged my knee. From Hong Kong we took a trip to Macau and then an extended trip through China.

Retirement

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My retirement dinner was held at the top of the Bank of America building.   Soon before retirement, Carolyn forwarded me this email: Thought you might like to see this excerpt from an email Jennifer just wrote me. Don’t tell her I sent you this: “Things at work are really strange now…every time Vera and … Read more

Buddhism

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After taking up Vipassana meditation, I became more and more interested in Buddhism.  I read many books on the subject.  By 2006 I was ready to declare  myself a Buddhist.  Come 2022 I became a lapsed Buddhist.  I was increasingly aware of how radically Western liberals had edited Buddhism—they had added secular Protestant morality, worshiped … Read more

Japan 2006

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Our first trip to Japan included Tokyo, Kyoto, Yufuin, Kumamoto, Hakone, Miyajima Island and Takayama.